That would be two thousand $5 purchases.
At two purchases per day, that’s about 2 years, 9 months.
At one purchase a day, that’s about 5 years 6 months.
At two purchases per week, that’s about 19 years 3 months.
At one purchase for week, that’s about 38 years, 5 months.
Okay, and did those 2000 purchases bring you cumulatively more joy than a single $10,000 purchase?
Almost certainly.
Deliberately buying junk to stretch a dollar for a dollar’s sake is not the same as buying inexpensive items that you actually want.
What a great point. The little bits of joy definetly add up to alot more.
Interestingly this is a thing in positive psychology, commonly refered to as savoring. Its a technique of paying special attention to small moments of happiness because they affect our overall mood alot more than big moments people tend to fixate on.
Heres a research article on the topic for anyone interested. the abstract gives a good overview of the concept.
My problem is falling for the “oh, the next model up has x feature for only £x more” ploy.
Before I know it, I’m at like double my initial price point .
This is so intentional by the people setting the prices as well. I know that’s obvious to some, but I still think it’s worth highlighting.
Yeah, it’s definitely true in mainstream products, but once you get into niche stuff there’s a few different elements that come into play. Like yeah you do actually, measurably get more for what you pay, each brand just has incremental units with X and Y functionality added as you go along. But there’s also an element of brand recognition and are you getting the top name in the business that can just price whatever they want, or are you going for the underdog that overdelivers for a lower price, but it may break on you or miss some of the shine.
Personally, I’m more likely to go for the higher/highest model, to squeeze the most functionality out of my purchase, but I’m also more willing to give the underdogs a shot and save big that way instead.
the $3500 I’ve spend on steam is probably 75% this
“It’s one banana, Michael, what could it cost?”
